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Topic of the Month

On 17 March, Ireland celebrates its national holiday, St. Patrick's Day. A good reason to take a virtual tour around the Emerald Isle and dig a little deeper into Irish history. And don't miss our Irish legends and lyrics of traditional songs. All topics are linked from the Ireland frontpage.

Read and Learn English

This section provides you with interesting texts on English speaking countries, holidays, animals and sports. In the Literature area, you will find excerpts and easy versions of famous novels. And if you are interested in what is going on in the world, you can read English news in our Newsticker.

Business English

In the Communication area, there is everything that you need for everyday business: structure of English business letter, wordlists and a generator for creating business letters easily. The Business-Info area provides you with tips on your career as well as strategies for marketing, negotiation, customer service etc.

Teach English

This section provides teachers with information on how to use ego4u material in class. For several topics on cultural studies, we have added notes that will help you plan your lesson. In the Lessons area, you will find printable material in PDF files. And if you want to get in touch with other teachers, use our Teacher’s Board.

Relax and Learn English

Learning English should be fun – so why not improve your English with our Games and Riddles? You can also send E-Cards to your friends or Chat with Egon.

LingoPad Dictionary

LingoPad is a free offline dictionary for Windows. It contains a German-English dictionary; other dictionaries (Spanish, French, Japanese, Chinese, Turkish, Norwegian, Esperanto) can be downloaded as well.

Calendar 2010

As a little present for our visitors, we have prepared an ego4u-Calendar 2010 with English vocabulary. These are mini posters on various topics. You can also download vocabulary cards to practice the words.

If you want to learn other languages, you can also download the calendar with German, French or Spanish vocabulary.

Study English

In the Grammar and Vocabulary areas, you will find exercises, explanations and word lists. In the Writing area, we tell you how to write English texts and how to work with stylistic devices. Our study tips help you to learn English more effectively and with more fun. And if you want to do one exercise every day, try out the Daily English lessons.

Give and Seek Advice

In our calendar, you can look up which holidays are celebrated where and when. To see what’s new on ego4u every month, just register for our newsletter. For advice on how to improve ego4u, use our Suggestions board. And if you are seeking advice on learning languages – or if you want to help others – you can become a member of our language forum Babelboard.

New on ego4u

• English pronunciation section
• Vocabulary Calendar 2010
• Auxiliary verbs with 10 exercises
• Simple Past and Present Perfect Simple with exercises and tests
• Simple Present and Present Perfect Progressive with exercises and tests
• LingoPad 2.6
• Present Perfect Simple and Present Perfect Progressive with exercises and tests
• Simple Past and Present Perfect Simple with exercises and tests
• Simple Past and Past Progressive with exercises
• Simple Present and Present Progressive with exercises and tests
• Pool of exercises with more than 4280 sentences